Line an 8" square pan with foil and grease foil well. Mix together the baking chips and sweetened condensed milk in a pan over medium heat. Continuously stir untilmelted and smooth. Stir in the extract, food coloring (add drops until desired color is reached), and crushed candy canes. Sprinkle with additional crushed candy canes if desired. Spread mixture in the pan, let coolcompletely and cut into squares.

In a large container dissolve raspberry punch mix and sugar in warm water. Add pineapple juice, lemonade, lemon juice,and raspberries. Stir til blended. Pour into large freezercontainers or Ziploc bags and freeze. When ready to serve, thaw some and break up with fork. Pour into punch bowlor individual cups and add lemon-lime beverage.Recipe from 5th Ward Christmas party

In a large bowl, mix the melted butter, cocoa powder andsugar; beat in the eggs and vanilla extract. In a mediumsized bowl, stir the flour, baking powder, baking soda andsalt. Slowly mix in the wet ingredients, then stir in thechips. Refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight. Preheatthe oven to 350 degrees. Form the dough into 1-inchballs and roll in confectioners' sugar. Bake for 10 to 12minutes. Set baking sheet on wire rack for 5 minutes.Lightly dust the cookies with the remaining confectioners'sugar. Makes 25 to 35 cookies.Picture and recipe from Family fun.

Combine tomatoes and tomato juice in sauce pan. Simmer for 30 minutes. Puree along with basil leaves in small batches in blender or food processor. Return to sauce pan and add cream and butter while stirring over low heat. Add pepper. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese before serving. Yields 8 servings.

Note: To save time, I just put the basil, tomato juice and crushed tomatoes in the blender first(separated in two batches since not all of it will fit in a blender), then poured into the sauce pan and stirred over low heat. Then I followed the rest of the recipe. I found it hard to cook the tomatoes/juice and then transfer the hot tomato mixture to the blender and then back to the pan.